Mission A-8

Am i the only one who thinks the missions are a bit ****? B8 wasn't so bad as its more like a normal race being 3 laps, but trying to overtake 15 cars in one lap just makes for frustrations and a bit of a mess.

For example on A8 you have around 8 cars virtually side by side for the first 6 or so corners, you can't touch them otherwise you run the risk of getting a time penalty, you can race the racing line as youd have to slow down so much for them costing you first position immediately, you cant cut inside them and use the grass slightly as youll get a time penalty. So most the time you have to take the outside line and you frequently have some tw*t (primarily the evo just after the first bend if your not quick enough) cutting out in front of you and braking hard...its just a trial and error mess until you find the line where you can keep you speed up and not get a time penalty for one reason or another.

The time penalty seems a mess too, sometimes you barely scrape someone or its completely the AI's fault and you get a 7 second penalty...then you skid into someone at 70mph hitting them with the side of your car so you are parallel and you dont get any penalty. Its a mess and needs to be removed for gt5...if theyre not going to do damage (i dont care about visual, just physical damage to the car) then stop penalising the user for driving faster and more agresively than the AI. Maybe it should only penalise the user for t-boning a car on turns as thats where the real problem is when you dont simulate damage.

Drive fast and drive good. No problem then.

I agree the penalties are hit n miss at the minute.. u cant even lean on an opponent without getting a 5 sec penalty.. Its a tough ol game this.

i think it couldnt be diff enough...!!!!i found gt4 to be too easy and am superhappy that gt5 is going to be a lot more challanging!!!......just have to put in a bit more practice and the results will come,it also looks like we have to drive "cleaner" lines on the circuit to get all the speed out of the cars and be even more carefull with the throttle than gt4!!!.....im loving every minute !

welcome to Professional racing

Hmmm, yes noticing my self that i`m having a great deal of trouble with the A league races. Both daytona races and london were`nt too bad but the the rest are giving headaches. Same goes for the timetrials..how can someone get gold? Silver is my best so far. But it`s those damn japanese track races...the two lead cars are miles (12secs at last count) in front of the main pack of 8 cars. Something shifty is going on there!

well i guess these are for the PROS of racing.. just like in real world.. only few are best

and i know from experience people really tend to forget a good racing line.. back in GT4 days i usually hooked up a car and raced it with slow cars and won every time.. but when i get to really hard levels... i used the same technique and lost because i did not took it too seriously and did not fallow the race line as much.. just get your head in the race line and as fast as possible.. nothing is impossible...